Place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate etc. has been excavated from the ground.
A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.
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Examples for "pit "
Examples for "pit "
1 They went in to the pit ; and I went in after them.
2 Power received a penalty for coming into Takuma Sato exiting his pit .
3 Thou sattest in one bucket beneath in the pit in great dread.
4 He slipped away into the gloom in the direction of the pit .
5 Which when you're looking for a pit -stop can often swing the vote.
1 Asterin's shout echoed, but Manon was falling, plunging the forty feet right into the stone pit .
2 Over there a stone pit ; faces grown like the faces of beasts, a picked-up rabble of assassins.
3 As the beast inside roared with hunger, the walls around him became a stone pit slick with scum.
4 The one room was dimly lit by a small fire crackling in the stone pit set into the right sod-and-timber wall.
5 Indeed, behind the open jaws, where the throat would open up was now a dark stone pit set with iron rungs.
A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence.
Другие значения термина "quarry" 1 The men in the stone- quarry were the strongest men in the world.
2 She will obviously have to wait, however, until the quarry is empty.
3 He is run away in fear to hide in the Barrington quarry .
4 He said that Sunway owns 12 businesses ranging from quarry to property.
5 I want to see the effects of the explosive on the quarry .
6 The best stone, from the quarry where Aaron and his father worked.
7 Ruth traps the squirrels and sets them free in a nearby quarry .
8 I found a very fine haystack in a field overlooking the quarry .
9 Still the citizens pressed in around their true quarry , which was Zed.
10 But later they made another tiger-spring for their quarry in the courts.
11 The latter crept away and followed, gradually closing in upon his quarry .
12 Here gather the eagles to the feast, for the quarry is defenceless.
13 The note rose and fell as she circled somewhere behind the quarry .
14 The dog had left him and was gone round into the quarry .
15 They go to the quarry and back on the hand car daily.
16 His eyes are sensitive after years of work in a limestone quarry .
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